Clive Cussler
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
To pull off their latest mission, Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon must survive a devastating new weapon unleashed in thirteenth-century China ... a daring rescue in the snowbound mountains along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border ... a woman gone missing in the jungles of northern Thailand and Myanmar ... for Cabrillo and company, all of these events will come together -- leading to the greatest threat against US security that the country has ever...
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
NUMA director Dirk Pitt searches for the connections among newly discovered Roman artifacts, the rise of a fundamentalist movement, and the existence of a mysterious long-lost "manifest," which, if discovered again, may change the history of the world.
3) The chase
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Turn-of-the-century detective Isaac Bell pursues a blood-thirsty bank robber—and perhaps one of the world’s first sociopaths—in the first novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series.
In 1906, the western states of America suffer a string of bank robberies by a single man who then cold-bloodedly murders any and all witnesses, and vanishes without a trace. Fed up by the depredations of “The...
In 1906, the western states of America suffer a string of bank robberies by a single man who then cold-bloodedly murders any and all witnesses, and vanishes without a trace. Fed up by the depredations of “The...
4) Arctic drift
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
A potential breakthrough discovery to reverse global warming . . . a series of unexplained sudden deaths in British Columbia . . . a rash of international incidents between the United States and one of its closest allies that threatens to erupt into an actual shooting war . . . NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his children, Dirk. Jr. and Summer, have reason to believe there's a connection here somewhere, but they also know they have very little time to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Chairman of the Corporation Juan Cabrillo and his mercenary crew steer theOregon into battle against a militant leader and his cult-like followers in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series.
Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the covert combat ship Oregon have barely escaped a mission on the Congo River when they intercept a mayday from a defenseless boat under fire off the African coast. Still smarting...
Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the covert combat ship Oregon have barely escaped a mission on the Congo River when they intercept a mayday from a defenseless boat under fire off the African coast. Still smarting...
6) The race
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Protecting a woman aviator whose violent husband has already committed one murder, Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency oversees the woman's participation in a daring 1910 cross-country race, which is being sponsored by a wealthy newspaper publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
The crew of the Oregon has just completed a top secret mission against Iran in the Persian Gulf, when they come across a cruise ship adrift in the sea. Hundreds of bodies litter its deck, and as ship captain Cabrillo tries to determine what happened, explosions rack the length of the ship. Barely able to escape with his own life and that of the liner's sole survivor, Cabrillo finds himself plunged into a mystery as intricate--and as perilous--as any...
8) The spy
Author
Series
Isaac Bell volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
1908 marks a year of ever-escalating international tension as the world plunges toward war. And with America on the brink, it comes as a devastating blow to learn of the apparent suicide of one of the United States most brilliant battleship-gun designers. The death becomes a media sensation, and the mans grief-stricken daughter turns to the legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency to clear her fathers name. Van Dorn puts his chief investigator on the case,...
9) Dark watch
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 3
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Cabrillo and his crew aboard the clandestine spy ship Oregon have made a comfortable but dangerous living working for high-powered Western interests. Their newest clients are a consortium of Japanese shipping magnates whose fortunes are being threatened by brutal pirates trolling the waters of Southeast Asia.
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
In his first adventure since the revelation that he’s a parent, Dirk Pitt must uncover the truth behind the myth of another long-lost father-figure, Homer’s Odysseus, if he’s going to stop a dangerous cult from reshaping the earth in their own image.
Fraternal twins, Summer Pitt and Dirk Pitt, Jr., are working to determine the origin of a strange brown tide infesting the ocean off the shore of Nicaragua when...
Fraternal twins, Summer Pitt and Dirk Pitt, Jr., are working to determine the origin of a strange brown tide infesting the ocean off the shore of Nicaragua when...
11) Golden Buddha
Author
Series
Oregon files adventures volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Captain Cabrillo and his intelligence agents plan to strike a deal with the Russians and Chinese to exchange a golden Buddha containing records of oil reserves for Tibet's freedom, but his enemies will do anything to stop him.
12) Sacred stone
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Juan Cabrillo and his CIA-backed Oregon crew must beat opposing factions to a discovery that could prevent World War III in this novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series.
In the remote wastes of Greenland, a young scientist has unearthed an artifact hidden in a cave for a millennium: a 50,000 year-old radioactive meteorite known as the Sacred Stone. But the astounding find places him in the crosshairs of...
In the remote wastes of Greenland, a young scientist has unearthed an artifact hidden in a cave for a millennium: a 50,000 year-old radioactive meteorite known as the Sacred Stone. But the astounding find places him in the crosshairs of...
Author
Series
Oregon Files volume 7
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Exploring a small island off the Washington State coast in 1941, five brothers make an astonishing discovery that is interrupted by the attack on Pearl Harbor and has ramifications for Cabrillo's present-day investigation into a crashed satellite in the Argentine jungle.
14) Treasure of Khan
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an oil survey team is abducted after a suspicious accident, Dirk Pitt follows leads to Mongolia, where he learns about a megalomaniac's plot to supply oil to China and to undermine global oil markets.
15) Atlantis found
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
Marine explorer Dirk Pitt faces off against an elite army from an era gone-by in order to uncover the secrets of an ancient civilization in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series.
A group of anthropologists uncover strange inscriptions on the wall of a Colorado mine just as an explosion traps them deep within the earth. But their work won’t stay buried long. Dirk Pitt is on hand during the blast and quick to initiate...
A group of anthropologists uncover strange inscriptions on the wall of a Colorado mine just as an explosion traps them deep within the earth. But their work won’t stay buried long. Dirk Pitt is on hand during the blast and quick to initiate...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
On the ocean liner Mauretania, two European scientists with a dramatic new invention are barely rescued from abduction by the Van Dorn Detective Agency's intrepid chief investigator, Isaac Bell. Unfortunately, they are not so lucky the second time. The thugs attack again-and this time one of the scientists dies. What are they holding that is so precious? Only something that will revolutionize business and popular culture-and perhaps something more....
Author
Series
NUMA files volume 8
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Kurt Austin puts the NUMA team on a case involving a hideous series of medical experiments, an extraordinarily ambitious Chinese criminal organization, and a secret new virus that threatens to set off a worldwide pandemic.
Author
Series
NUMA files volume 6
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Author
Series
NUMA files volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Someone has killed for a statue stolen from the Baghdad Museum years ago and the NUMA team must find why.
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
When the U.S. secretary of state's plane crashes while bringing her to a summit meeting in Libya, the CIA, distrusting the Libyans, hire Juan Cabrillo to search for her--in a manhunt that pits him against Islamic terrorists and a search for answers regarding a centuries-old Islamic manuscript.